If the web page you want to open is inaccessible (the reasons could include temporary network issues or the page being removed from the site entirely), there’s no need to lose hope. In fact, backup versions of most pages can be restored from the Internet with just a little expertise. The whole process is very simple, and you’ll find it very useful if you’re researching a topic and find that a link you’ve had for weeks or even months no longer works.
If you want to read a page that has been removed or is no longer accessible, you can do so.
Backtracker
Archive.org’s Wayback is probably the best tool for recovering deleted web pages. It is part of the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that attempts to replicate everything on the Internet. It saves over 435 billion web pages, which may not be the entirety of the Internet, but it’s still impressive. Pages were captured multiple times, for example we used the Wayback Machine to look at several NDTV Gadgets homepages from different years and see our design evolve over time.
Here’s how to use it.
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Open the Wayback website.
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Enter the URL of the missing website or webpage you want to open in the box at the top.
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Click Browsing history.
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You will see the calendar view. Select the year at the top, then select the day from the list of months below.
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That’s it! You’ll see saved versions of the page from that date.
search engine cache
If you are looking for a recently deleted page, it may be easier to find it through a search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing. As long as you can find the page in search engines, you should be able to load a backup copy of the page. Here’s how it works:
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Open your favorite search engine. Google’s cache is very good, so we recommend you use it.
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If you know the link to the missing web page, paste it into the search bar or just search the page to find the link you need.
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Below the link’s blue text, you’ll see a line of green text, which is the URL of the web page. click down arrow Green next to URL text.
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Click cache. This will show you the saved version of the page you want, along with details of when it was backed up.
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If this page doesn’t load properly, you can try clicking plain text version in the upper right corner. This will lose all images from the page, but will still allow you to get the important data you need if it doesn’t load correctly.
Save the web pages you need
If you want to keep web pages for research purposes, a better idea is to save them beforehand. Doing this from the browser is simple:
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Go to the website you want to save.
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according to Ctrl+S.
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Give it any file name and click save.
This will store the page on your computer so you can access it at any time. If you’re not using a computer, you can always use a third-party service like Pocket to save web pages for offline reading – once the extension is installed, saving a page is as simple as clicking pocket button While you’re reading the page you want to save, in your browser, or right-click the link and click save to pocket.
For more tutorials, visit our how-to section.
